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Lolas' House: Filipino Women Living with War

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Lolas' House: Filipino Women Living with War - Galang, M Evelina
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Lolas' House tells the stories, in unprecedented detail, of sixteen surviving Filipino "comfort women." During World War II more than 1,000 Filipino women and girls were kidnapped by the Imperial Japanese Army. They were taken from their homes, snatched from roadsides, and chased down in fields. Overall the Japanese forced 400,000 women across Asia into sexual slavery. M. Evelina Galang began researching these stories in the 1990s as 173 lolas, "grannies" in Tagalog, emerged after decades of shame and silence to demand ...

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Lolas' House: Filipino Women Living with War 2017, Curbstone Press

ISBN-13: 9780810135864

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